Standards and Regulations
The Standards Portal is a one-stop information resource to identify standards that are critical for the cross border trade of goods and services between the United States and China. This section of the website provides users with the opportunity to:
- Browse for Standards
Key bibliographic information for approximately 1,000 standards from each nation have been translated into the language of the other country so that users of this website can effectively search for and identify the specifications impacting imports and exports in defined industry sectors.
- Search for Standards
Links and access points for nearly 300,000 (proposed and approved) national, regional and international standards and guidelines are available on the NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards.
The NSSN is an online search engine managed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Users can also register to receive free e-mail updates when new projects are registered in an area of interest, or when suggestions are made to revise or otherwise modify existing standards.
- Purchase Standards
The ANSI eStandards Store contains an inventory of more than 83,000 domestic, regional and international standards that are immediately available for purchase and download in electronic (.pdf) format.